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...Dresden was a beautiful city on the Elbe, 98 miles south of Berlin. Dresden was called "the German Florence" because of its magnificent rococo art collections and baroque buildings. It had very little strategic value, especially that late in the war, and had escaped Allied bombing attacks until 1945. But for very dubious reasons, the Allies ruthlessly fire-bombed the refuges-packed city on February 13-14, 1945, creating a firestorm that could be seen for 200 miles. Though the numbers of deaths have been disputed, the figure quoted by historian David Irving, author of "The Destruction of Dresden...
That was the reassurance depositors needed. When a handful of the 69 closed S and Ls reopened late last week, no new runs started. Generally, customers came in only to get walking-around money. At the Savings One Association in Dresden, a longtime customer deposited $15,000 as a show of support. Said Helen Mershon, a teller at the Southern Ohio Savings Association in St. Bernard: "Some of our customers just came in to say hello...
...INFERNO LIKE DRESDEN MUST NEVER BE REPEATED! proclaimed one banner, its white letters imprinted on a scarlet background. EUROPE WANTS NO EUROSHIMA! exclaimed another; SOCIALISM, PEACE, FREEDOM, declared a third. In the streets, toddlers waved tiny red flags with the hammer and sickle, and huge portraits of Marx, Lenin and Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko bobbed above a crowd of some 150,000 gathered at the Theaterplatz. From a platform emblazoned with the dove of peace, East German Communist Party Chief Erich Honecker faced the blackened ruins of the city's cathedral and, without a trace of irony, intoned: "Today Dresden...
...Republic last week celebrated the restoration of the Semper Opera House, 40 years to the day after one of Germany's most gracious cities was destroyed in a blazing rain of fire bombs. Despite the propaganda, the occasion was another significant step in the postwar cultural reconstruction of Europe. Dresden, a baroque jewel set gracefully on the banks of the Elbe, has long been a center of German musical life. It boasts a distinguished lineage of kapellmeisters that extends back to Heinrich Schutz in the 17th century and includes Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner. It has been called...
...opera house's future, indications are a bit more promising. The opening week also saw the world premieres of a ballet by prominent East German Composer Udo Zimmermann and an opera by Siegfried Matthus, so perhaps Dresden's reputation as a home for new music will be at least partially restored. And Wolfgang Wagner, the composer's grandson who maintains the family shrine at Bayreuth, will direct a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg in December. But what the Semper needs is what the rest of Eastern Europe's houses need: the free exchange of singers, designers and directors...